We do not run this website as a profit machine. Instead, advertising on F Wall Street is sparingly allowed to help offset the cost of hosting, new features, and maintenance. For example, in June of 2010, F Wall Street contracted with a data provider for certain security data (such as CUSIPs and company names) to help visitors with their value investing research. Data fees are expensive; so, F Wall Street attempts to offset those costs with advertising revenue.

We do not accept money or other remuneration for any reviews of products or services.

F Wall Street authors are provided with one free advertisement (300×250) on their own profile pages.

Who Should Advertise on F Wall Street?

In the first five months of 2010 alone, F Wall Street enjoyed more than 1.3 million hits. That’s about 8,700 hits every day, or six hits every second. But don’t let the numbers fool you – we’re not in the business of selling ads. At F Wall Street, we’re in the business of providing value to our community. (That’s why, for the first three years, no advertising was allowed on F Wall Street.)

If you have a product or service that you believe would be beneficial to the F Wall Street community of value investors, you may submit an advertisement to be approved by the F Wall Street team. Every advertisement is subject to approval, and must meet the terms of our terms of use and privacy policy, as well as our subjective tests for relevancy and value. The decision to approve or deny any advertisement is solely that of the F Wall Street team.

In addition to approved advertisements, F Wall Street also displays advertisements through third-party advertising companies (such as Google) which are not specifically approved by us.

How to Advertise

F Wall Street offers three methods of advertising:

• General Display
• Pick a Page
• Own a Page

General Display. Your advertisement will appear on various pages throughout F Wall Street and may rotate in and out with other advertisements throughout the site.

Pick a Page. Your advertisement will appear only on a page or pages of your choosing (subject to availability and to approval by the F Wall Street team).

Own a Page. Your advertisement will be the only one on a page or pages of your choosing (subject to availability and to approval by the F Wall Street team) and no other paid advertisements will be allowed on that page or those pages; except that, we may continue to create or maintain affiliate links in the content of those pages (eg, an affiliate link to a book on Amazon.com displayed in an article, tickertalk or comment).

Pricing

Random Display Ads

• 125×125: $35 per month
• 300×250: $125 per month

Pick a Page

• 125×125: $75 per month
• 300×250: $240 per month

Own a Page

• $750 per month

Your advertisement is on a month-to-month contract and can be cancelled as of the end of any calendar month upon one week advance notice.

How to Advertise

Are you ready to get started or do you have questions about advertising on F Wall Street? Send us an e-mail and someone from the F Wall Street team will contact you!

Ad Sizes and Creative

All advertisements must be either 125×125 or 300×250; except that, Own a Page ads must be 300 pixels wide and may be as large as 600 pixels in height.

Your advertisement must meet the following creatives:

• Type: Flash, GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, or HTML
• Animation: No longer than 30 seconds.
• Volume/Sound: Cannot begin until user hovers mouse over or clicks your advertisement and must have easily identifiable and clickable pause or mute button.
• Links: Must allow user to return to F Wall Street via their browser’s back button.
• Expansion: If your ad expands outside the bounds of the advertising content holder, your expanded advertisement must have a close button.
• Edits/Changes: No more than one every calendar month.
• File Size: Maximum 100K.

Available Pages for Pick a Page and Own a Page

You may choose any article, topic or symbol, or your own profile page, for your Pick a Page or Own a Page advertisements. You may not choose the profile page of any other user or any “static” page (such as this one or our privacy policy) which pages will only display advertisements by third-party vendors (such as Google) or specific advertisements chosen by the F Wall Street team.